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Wrestling with the Big Questions: A Day In Job at LICC (bibleandmission.redcliffe.org)
The book of Job speaks a compelling word of honesty and hope into the deepest and most difficult of human experiences. Job’s story of suffering and the process he goes through with his comforters and with God is just as relevant for Christians and local churches today as we wrestle with our own questions and the questions of those around us.

The Weather (frmilovan.wordpress.com)
Though it is subtle, weather plays a role in the Bible story as well. In the book of Job we read: “For He says to the snow, be on the earth….He directs His lightening to the ends of the earth” (Job 37:3,6). In Psalms 96:4 we read: “His lightening enlightened the world. The whole earth saw and trembled.” He directs the weather to help us and thus in Genesis we read: “But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock with him in the boat. He sent a wind to blow across the earth and the flood waters began to recede” (8:1-2). There are many mentions of natural phenomena attributed to God throughout Scripture and they include snow and rain and hail and earthquakes and so forth.

Questioning God (dailybibleplan.com)
We are all tempted to question God. There are many times when we simply cannot understand why things are happening as they are. In these times, we as humans tend to do one of two things. Either we question God by asking Him why He is allowing this to happen, or we put words in God’s mouth by trying to explain His motives. Sometimes, we try to do both. God, however, does not need our help. God does not need or want us to try to run the world. God’s moral purposes are so complex that they are beyond human understanding. How can we question God when we cannot understand things like His creation or the forces of nature?

I think ignorance should be punishable (maasaiboys.wordpress.com)
We learn in Genesis that once in a while, that is before he chased away the tenants of the small garden, he would take a walk in the afternoon to see how his creation was doing. I was doing my stroll in blogland this afternoon and found a post which was well written and a comment that has informed our choice of title and this will be made clear in a short while.

Making Sense of Suffering (enteringthepromisedland.wordpress.com)
God never lets us suffer because He likes to do that. However, in His great love He alone sees what kind of circumstances, afflictions or trials will be helpful for us to finally give up on ourselves and to only trust in Him. Despite serious pains in my heart and soul for some time now, I sense that a new form of faith which is no longer grounded on something that I could find in myself – since there is nothing that could ever make me jump for joy again – has begun to come to light right out of the darkness. I do not understand how it works, yet I have realized that faith, indeed, exclusively comes from God. We could never achieve true faith on our own.

With Friends Like These… (thebluepaper.com)
Job starts to call God bad names and wishes he, Job that is, had never been born. That’s when his three “friends” — Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite — show up to make him feel better. One tells Job that his kids died because they were sinful and he should just shut up and take it like a man. Another thinks Job did something wrong or was simply stupid. The third tells Job he whines and wails and talks too much, so basically more “shut up and take it” advice. Job tells them to take their “comfort” and ride back out on the camel they came in on. He then tells God that he was crazy to presume he could figure out God’s reasons for doing anything and should have just gone with the flow and then, one burnt offering later, he gets his wealth, health, and family back

Is Atheism a Specifically Western Phenomenon? (the-american-interest.com)
Atheism, as we know it, came out of a Judaeo-Christian context.
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The rebellion is triggered by an agonizing problem: How can God, believed to be both all-powerful and morally perfect, permit the suffering and the evil afflicting humanity? This is the problem called theodicy, which literally means the “justice of God”; in the spirit of the rebellion it is also a demand that God has to justify himself. The most eloquent expression of this atheist rebellion in literature is by Dostoyevsky’s Ivan Karamazov rejecting God, because he allowed the cruel murder of one child.

Within the Hebrew Bible the problem of theodicy is of course confronted in the Book of Job. Its happy ending (Job’s restored good fortune) is probably a later redaction, intended to assuage the outrage at Job’s innocent suffering. If one brackets the ending, the message is one of submission to God’s will, whatever it may be.

Protecting Your Heart from Entitlement (pastortyrus.com)
If right now you lost your job, home, health AND your children – would you charge God foolishly? The Apostle Paul said it best, “I know how to live in poverty or prosperity. No matter what the situation, I’ve learned the secret of how to live when I’m full or when I’m hungry, when I have too much or when I have too little.” Wow- you can only share the sentiments of Paul, if you haven’t allowed possessions, position, and power to alter the makeup of your soul. Now let’s go back to Job, he never charged God foolishly for his lost, and in the end he was awarded double than what he had before his divine test. If you are reading this blog today and you feel that you have allowed possessions to lead you to entitlement, stop and repent.

Time passing away (bijbelvorser.wordpress.com)
for everything written in the past was written to teach us, so that with the encouragement of the Tanakh we might patiently hold on to our hope.

Recent Posts from Christadelphians for you about: Messiah For All

Jewish and Christian literature since the time of Yeshua or Jeshua have pointed to Genesis 3:15 as the first reference to the Messiah in the Torah. Genesis 3:15 NHEBJE I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his […]

The first human beings had chosen to go their own path. As any good father would do when his children had done something wrong, God punished them. But as a loving Father He in His great mercy promised for a solution and preserved David’s bloodline and the Messianic promise. Mankind had chosen Yet, we each […]

Do you know where in the Bible we find God‘s first promise to send the Messiah? The answer is foundational to our faith because within this first Messianic Prophecy mentioned in the Bible lies our fate of eternal separation from God. Too many christians limit the Bible to the second main part, the Messianic Writings, […]

The Divine Creator of heaven and earth wished not to leave the ones sent out of the Garden of Eden on their own. Though Adam and Eve rebelled against God, Him having expelled them, the Elohim was willing to stay close to them and to help there where He could or where it was appropriate […]

Those people coming from the first man and woman in a certain way got infected by the wrong choice these people made. God gave a free will to the human beings He created. He did not want them to go wrong or to have it bad, but because they objected to His ruling or His […]

PSALMS -1-23-24-48-100-3 – 121 Blessed is the Man that walketh not in the Council of the ungodly nor standeth in the way of sinners nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful, But his delight is in the law of ~YAHWEH~ and in HIS law doth he meditate day and night. ##———–PSALM 2:6 _____ 6 […]

##### —– II KINGS 2:9-13 ELIJA and ELISHA PARTING 2:9 And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me. […]

####—DEUTERONOMY 30:19 19 I call Heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: 20 That thou mayest love ~YAHWEH~ Thy Elohim, and that thou mayest obey HIS voice, and that thou […]

To remember from previous verses “I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed; to love Jehovah thy God, to obey his voice, and to cleave unto him; […]

. [Deuteronomy 6:4]____________ KEEP: ___________________________ THE ~COMMANDMENTS ~ ________________________ LEVITICUS 8:8 8 he put the breastplate upon him: also he put in* the breastplate the Urim [Fullness] and the Thummim. [BRIGHTNESS] *[ON] NUMBERS 14:21 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the Glory […]

From the previous verses to remember: Ex 23:22 But if thou shalt indeed hearken unto his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries. Ex 24:7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the […]

Having looked at what false teachers may do, we must be very conscious about what for teachings we want to follow. Let the one who thinks he is standing beware that he does not fall.—1 Cor. 10:12. Jehovah gives us His powerful holy Spirit, which can strengthen us and help us to resist temptation. God also […]

Paul’s warning about false stories is in the first letter he wrote to Timothy, a Christian elder. Paul told Timothy to keep the congregation clean and to help his brothers and sisters to stay loyal to Jehovah. 1 Timothy 1:18, 19: 18 This instruction* I entrust to you, my child Timothy, in harmony with the prophecies that were made […]

Matthew 7: 13-14 {NWT}+ {Ref B.}:13 “Go in through the narrow gate,+ because broad is the gate and spacious is the road leading off into destruction, and many are going in through it; 14 whereas narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life, and few are finding it.+ Luke 13:24: 24 “Exert yourselves vigorously to […]

When Jesus was alive he warned already for a time that false teachers would come along. Soon after he died, was risen and gone up in the skies to his heavenly Father several teachers found something interesting in the rabbi his teaching they could use for their own teachings. They mixed it with Roman Greek […]

MT7:21 Not everyone saying to me, ‘Master, Master!’[1] will enter the Heavenly Realm but the one doing the will[2] of my heavenly Father. MT7:22 Many will say to me in The Day:[3] ‘Master, Master, did we not prophesy in your name?[4] And, in your name cast out demons?[5] And, in your name did many dynamic […]

Recent Posts from Bible scholars: Bijbelvorser = Bible Researcher

Dr Hugh Houghton, of the University of Birmingham, after an Austrian colleague read about an anonymous manuscript in Cologne Cathedral Library, digitised by the University of Salzburg in 2012, in a local newspaper and told him about it. The work thought to have been copied out by a scholar in around 800, more than 400 […]

Regularly Christians are questioned about the existence of the Biblical figures, whilst those asking the questions do not doubt the existence of so many other historical figures where there is less written about and less findings discovered. Concerning the Ancient times and writings in the Hebrew Scriptures we do have archaeologic proof of 53 people […]

Jill Katz on urban anthropology in the capitals of Israel and Judah Ancient Samaria and Jerusalem had a lot in common in the ninth and eighth centuries B.C.E. Both were part of David and Solomon’s United Kingdom of Israel in the tenth century, and both became capitals when it split into the southern kingdom of […]

From the moment they were discovered, the Samaria ivories created fanfare. Recently some scholars have challenged the long-accepted assumption about the ivories’ origins. When the Samaria ivories were first excavated, they were immediately explained as Phoenician products and, therefore, considered foreign to their discovery site, Samaria. However, there is currently no archaeological evidence to indicate […]

Rupert Chapman — formerly of the British Museum, London — examines the Israelite kings’ palace at Samaria in his article “Samaria—Capital of Israel,” published in the September/October 2017 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review. In the Bible, King Ahab’s palace is called an “ivory house” (2 Kings 22:39). We know from other Biblical passages that Ahab […]

“When I was a child my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll be the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.” ― Pablo Picasso Dutch version / Nederlandse versie > Indien hij een soldaat of monnik werd Related […]

Originally posted on Turkey File: You’d have to love your president! Saturday, 15 July, was the first anniversary of a failed attempt by some officers in the Turkish armed forces to overthrow the country’s democratically elected AK Party government. The government has planned a week of meetings and other activities to commemorate the courage of…

The last months we have seen that even by papers which had nothing against Erdoğan had also people arrested as being considered a danger for the “Islamic nation Turkey“. In that country many may have looked forward to see the the 105th Caliph rise above the stars of Europe and America. Mixed with cultural and […]

The previous months I have been very busy writing (under different names) religious articles for other websites and working on a glossary (of Jewish terms) which had normally to be published in April (but because I had not finished it yet, being postponed until later) plus working at the same time on a translation of […]

2016 seemed to be the year lots of people thought it had become really time to leave this place like it was, them not having to worry about it any-more. Alida Victoria Grubba Rudge, 113, became Brazilian supercentenarian, nation’s oldest person. Nola Ochs, 105, American centenarian, became the world’s oldest college graduate. Guyanese novelist (To […]